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THE viscosity of metallic liquids has been comparatively little studied, mainly due to the experimental difficulties characteristic of viscosity measurements at higher temperatures. The interest in viscosity data is, however, considerable. On the theoretical side, such data would provide further information towards the understanding of the liquid state, while, in the field of applied metallurgy, the viscous nature of liquids is tied closely with the flow behaviour of metals in filling moulds. The paucity of data in these fields can be appreciated from the fact that even such important problems as the variation of viscosity as a function of temperature close to the melting point of a metal, and the variation of viscosity as a function of composition in binary alloy systems, have not been fully studied experimentally.
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YAO, T., KONDIC, V. Viscosity of Metallic Liquids. Nature 166, 483 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166483a0
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